Origins of the French Welfare State
Subtitle: The Struggle for Social Reform in France, 19141947 (New Studies in European History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 10, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780521813341
Subjects: Economic History; European history: from c 1900 -; History of medicine; Social welfare & social services; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Europe; Social Work; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Business & Economics / Economic History; Business & Economics-Economic History; Political Science / Social Services & Welfare; Social security--France--History; History; France; Public welfare; Social problems; Social security
First sentence: On a rainy December morning in 1995 Pierre Laroque gazed out the window of his apartment on Paris' Avenue Victor Hugo and contemplated the snarled traffic below.